UK unemployment rate hits 44-year low: official data

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UK unemployment rate hits 44-year low: official data eNCA

The jobless rate -- or proportion of the workforce that is unemployed -- hit 3.9 percent in the three months to the end of January, the lowest level since 1975, the Office for National Statistics said.

The total number of unemployed people slid by 35,000 to 1.34 million in the year to January, which was 112,000 lower than a year ago.

 

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oh yeah....they must come undo john rhode's dirty work in RSA now

If only SA could say the same 😪

27.6%

We need to follow Thatcher 's union bashing to achieve this figures Our_DA MYANC _cosatu SAFTU_media EFFSouthAfrica

And South Africa's one keeps on increasing. It's been more than 20 years since the ANC came to power, it's been 20+ years since things started to degrade...south Africans need to open their eyes, use their right to vote and kick these corrupt people out of office.

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